Description
In today's rapidly globalizing world, the flow of ideas and ideologies has become an undeniable force, transcending borders and shaping our collective consciousness. It may have seemed counterintuitive in the past for the formation of political identities in a North African country to be influenced by western right-wing extremist ideologies; particularly those rooted in ethnic superiority and white power. However, amidst increasing right-wing extremist activity and violence, there has been a significant increase in research in the field of counter-extremism regarding the deterritorialization and globalization of the movement (Miller-Idriss 2020 and Ebner 2023). As research extends beyond the West into countries like Brazil (with the rise of Jair Bolsonaro) and the Hindu nationalist Hindutva movement, my scholarly intervention seeks to contribute to it by examining how these ideas propagate beyond Western countries (Pinheiro-Machado and Vargas-Maia 2023). In my project, I intend to answer the question: How are western right-wing extremist ideologies and narratives adapted into the Egyptian political context? I am thus studying how ideas and information travel across time and space, influence, and get adapted into different cultural and political contexts, specifically the Egyptian one.
